Word: leape
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After seeing the box-office receipts for Spider-Man and reading about superheroes who have made the leap from the pages of comic books to the big screen [BLOCKBUSTER SUMMER, May 20], I wonder if comic-book readers will finally get some respect. Will the public thank us comic-book fans for keeping these characters in print and alive for decades? What would the film world be like if George Lucas and young directors like Kevin Smith hadn't been inspired by comics growing up? I am grateful to anyone who has ever written or drawn a comic book...
...Kosovo, and Pakistani and Indian hackers are doing it right now. Over a period of several years, U.S. investigators believe hackers - probably from Russia - tunneled into department of Defense sites and illegally downloaded large quantities of technical defense research, all unclassified, according to the Pentagon. The leap from this kind of sporadic hacking to virtual terrorism is only a matter of time, specialists believe. "After every terrorist attack, security is tightened up and improved," Chepchugov remarks. "But these days you don't need to get a truck bomb into, say, a chemical plant or crash a plane into...
...alley and on summer nights we used to whisper through walkie-talkies long after our parents had put us to bed. Amanda was with me the first time I had a sleepover, the first time I was allowed to walk to school alone, the first time I took a leap into the deep end of a swimming pool...
...some ways, for some of us, it’s about losing people who hold some part of our history that no other person does—a romance, an intellectual discovery, a frightening leap into the deep end of a pool...
...Grant and Siilats, the toughest college competition may still await at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Grant ranks 12th nationally in the hammer throw thanks to her 59.59-meter performance from Heps, while Siilats is tied with eight other high jumpers for 10th with her 1.80-meter leap from Heps. Neither passed the automatic qualifying marks for their events, but a top-16 national finish is typically enough to make NCAAs...